From the Iowa Democratic Party:
Senator Barack Obama : 37.55%
Senator John Edwards : 29.81%
Senator Hillary Clinton : 29.44%
Governor Bill Richardson : 2.10%
Senator Joe Biden : 0.94%
Uncommitted : 0.13%
Senator Chris Dodd : 0.02%
Precincts Reporting: 1762 of 1781
On the Republican side, Huckabee is about 8 points ahead of Romney, who's around 10 in front of Thompson and McCain. So the Huckster pulled it out.
But after dismal showings, Chris Dodd and Joe Biden have announced that they're dropping out. Biden will make a great foreign policy-oriented VP or else a Secretary of State, while Dodd has shown tremendous leadership in the senate and we'll see if he gets a leadership position there in the future.
All in all, it's a good start to primary season and should keep the news machines running till New Hampshire votes on Tuesday.
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There were no "Yarrrrrgh"s though. :( Although, Edwards did get a little excited there at the end of his speech. Watching the results, I was speculating on who Obama might choose as his running mate should he win. I wonder if Edwards would be content to be a VP candidate again, or if Obama would pick Hillary (or vice versa should she get the nomination). I mean, they do seem to hate each other, but it's not like that sort of situation hasn't happened before (ie Reagan and Bush). I think the best part of the whole coverage (on CNN) was when Anderson Cooper spent a good 2 minutes completely ignoring what another reporter was saying while he was playing around with some fancy CNN graphics superimposed onto a sheet of paper he was holding. Or the fact that Chuck Norris was standing right behind Huckabee during his speech...not milking that endorsement at all. All in all, it looks like crazy Huck might be in this for real, much to my chagrin (not that I like Romney any better). And how about Ron Paul pulling in ahead of Guiliani (at least in the last results I saw)...
For Obama, I'd like to see Biden, Clark or Richardson as a VP pick at this point.
C-SPAN had an actual caucus site covered. That was much more fun than watching the news channels, except for when it was boring.
Giuliani didn't really campaign in Iowa, so I'm not surprised it didn't go so well for him...I have no idea how he expects to win.
Yeah, the people behind the candidates as they were talking was interesting. Hillary had Bill and Madeleine Albright, Huckabee had Chuck Norris and Obama just had a stand fun of enthusiastic but anonymous supporters.
And the dems got twice the turnout the republicans did. Wow. I'm really really annoyed I couldn't be there (stupid obama campaign having "too many volunteers") but I can't complain about the results...
Yeah, I wasn't sure on the Republican side who had been campaigning a lot in Iowa, but I do know that Edwards put a lot of time and money into Iowa. And second place is good, but I think he was banking on taking it.
CSPAN is great for these kind of events...you know when they show rooms emptying for like 10 minutes that they aren't leaving anything out.
When I tried to contact the Obama campaign about going to Iowa, they tried to get me to phone bank here in Springfield. Not that phone banking isn't riveting, but come on...
I, for one, loved the MSNBC coverage with Chris Matthews. He is just blunt enough to be obnoxious but liberal enough for me to like him.
Also, the technical difficulties were entertaining, to say the least.
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